High-level research, development and initiation of new treatment methods can be pursued only through cooperation with internationally recognized cancer centers abroad. Such cooperation has been usually based on partnership or on cooperation only in specific areas.

Over many active years in research, the Institute of Oncology Ljubljana established cooperation with the following foreign institutions:

• British Columbia Cancer Center, Vancouver
• Centro Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano
• Cork Cancer Research Centre, Cork
• Erasmus University, Rotterdam
• Gray Cancer Institute, Northwood
• Harlev Hospital, Harlev
• Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Toulouse
• Institut Gustave Roussy / CNRS, Villejuif
• Institut Ruđer Bošković, Zagreb
• Klinika za tumore Zagreb, Zagreb
• Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milano
• Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, Milano
• Lund University, Lund University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Lund
• M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Houston
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York
• National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
• The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
• University of Münster, Münster
• University of Ulm, Ulm

 

and research groups:

• EORTC - European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer
• EORTC Breast Cancer Group
• EORTC Gynecological Cancer Group
• EORTC Lung Cancer Group
• EORTC Lymphoma Group
• EORTC Melanoma Group
• EORTC NOCI
• EORTC Radiotherapy Group
• European Network of Cancer Registries - ENCR
• International Agency for Research on Cancer - IARC
• International Breast Cancer Study Group - IBCSG
• Central European Cooperative Oncoloy Group - CECOG
• Central and East European Oncoloy Group - CEEOG
• Breast Cancer International Research Group - BCIRG